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Tuesday, June 23, 2009

Swan Songs at the Bucks County Playhouse

I wonder how many swan songs took place here both inside and out over the past seventy years?

While on a little bridge taking pictures of the playhouse I saw three swans or white geese pretending to be swans swimming, then suddenly they turned and like magic there were four.

If you look really closely at the second picture you can see the baby's tail and little yellow foot.

"The Bucks County Playhouse, The State Theater of Pennsylvania, located in New Hope, Bucks County, Pennsylvania is a national landmark for Broadway Plays and is rich in theatrical history. “Springtime for Henry” with Edward Everett Horton opened the Playhouse season in 1939 and the celebrities that followed are a who's who of the theater. Princess Grace Kelly, Bea Arthur, Jack Cassidy, Colleen Dewhurst, Bob Fosse, Merv Griffin, Gene Rayburn, William Shatner, Paul Lynde, George C. Scott, Liza Minnelli, Audra McDonald, Loretta Swit, Don Knotts, Andrea McArdle and John Travolta are just a few of the luminaries that have graced the Playhouse stage in our incredible list of Broadway productions."

The Delaware river and the Pennsylvania, New Jersey border is on the other side of the playhouse.

21 comments:

Great photo. Love the little one with them. How cool that so many famous people have played there. Excellent. This is always such a pleasure to stop by with all the history and photos. I thoroughly enjoy it :)

Hello my dear friend!soooo cute this post!Hey James it would be perfect for a fabulous Camera Critters!Thanks for all information!You always like to share details and it is wonderful for us!God bless youLéia :-)

The Play's the thing James. We have quite a few old playhouses in my surronding area including Stratford which offers great year round entertainment. I prefer Swans over Geese anytime. I've landed on greens where I have literally had to chip over the landmines on the green.....if you catch my drift.

New Hope is great, and so is the playhouse... I have seen several plays there in my "younger days" but don't remember which ones! I can remember what I wore to one of the in the 80s very clearly, but have no clue what I watched! Great ducks!

When we lived in West Chester, we heard a lot about the theater...but never got there...that's when we were young, raising kids, working (and I was traveling a lot)...not much time and not a lot of money...